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Author : Jon J. Muth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964206939
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Koan Paintings written by Jon J. Muth and published by . This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joshua Goldberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Zenga Paintings written by Joshua Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ray Grigg
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462907458
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Tao of Zen written by Ray Grigg and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premise of The Tao of Zen is that Zen is really Taoism in the disguise of Buddhism—an assumption being made by more and more Zen scholars. This is the first Zen book that links the long-noted philosophical similarities of Taoism and Zen. The author traces the evolution of Ch'an The The Tao of Zen is a fascinating book that will be read and discussed by anyone interested in both Taoism and Zen
Author : Alexander Holstein
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462901085
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Pointing at the Moon written by Alexander Holstein and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Zen koans with extensive commentary will be of great interests to followers of Zen Buddhism. People around the world value the mind-cleansing, spiritually uplifting benefit to be gained through the practice of Cha'an (Zen) Buddhism. Central to Zen is the enigmatic koan (kung-an), a kind of riddle used by masters to shock their students into greater awareness. In this timeless collection from Chinese masters, translations of 100 of these question-and-answer riddles are presented. Each koan is followed by the author's commentary, which provides fascinating insight into the background and deeper meanings of the koans. Pointing at the Moon contains zen koeans from the following four treatises of the Zen tradition: A Selection From the Five Books of the Zen Masters' Sayings The Light of the Zen Sayings Recorded in the Year if Developing Virtue The Zen Sayings Recorded During the Moonlit Meditation An Anthology if Zen Sayings Enhanced by the 85 beautifully sketched Chinese brush paintings, Pointing at the Moon is a text certain to stimulate and challenge anyone interested in learning more about Zen and its tradition of spiritual enlightenment.
Author : Edward Beardshear
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469798719
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Some Die Mad written by Edward Beardshear and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-05-28 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Malcolm Ward's father dies and he is betrayed into Mid-State Hospital by a cruel and greedy uncle. Malcolm is imprisoned on the Acute Violent and Forensic Ward where he discovers both art and the art of survival. Later, in the general hospital population, he fights to save a pretty young lady patient in his group therapy from a psychotic superintendent. This activates a system already clearly out to kill him. After he is blitzed by a series of unneeded shock treatments and sent to a back ward to die, he slowly recovers by painting and crafting sculpture. He falls in love with a devoted occupational therapist who reciprocates. And to make himself whole for her he escapes the hospital to find a new and truer life in a blazing finale of enlightened madness in New York's Greenwich Village.
Author : Joan Sutherland
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834844559
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Through Forests of Every Color written by Joan Sutherland and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nautilus Book Award Winner An intimate spiritual and literary journey exploring how Zen koans make us permeable to the joys and the anguish of this life—and to the primordial mystery we glimpse behind the veil of the everyday. In Through Forests of Every Color, renowned Zen teacher Joan Sutherland reimagines the koan tradition with allegiance to the root spirit of the koans and to their profound potential for vivifying, subverting, and sanctifying our lives. Her decades of practicing with koans and of translating them from classical Chinese imbues this text with a warm familiarity, an ease still suffused with awe. Interlinked essays on “koans as art,” “keeping company with koans,” and “walking the koan way” intersperse with beautifully translated renditions of dozens of traditional Zen koans. Sutherland also shares innovative koans culled from Western literature, as well as teachings on how to create idiosyncratic koans or "turning words" from the circumstances of one's own life. “First honored is your yearning, the preparation made on faith that there is something that will receive you if you make yourself ready,” writes Sutherland of the koan seeker. “Bathed—attended to, washed free of complications—and then aspiring to the deepest kind of beauty—receptive, brave, dedicated, openhearted. Already you’ve begun to look like the thing you’re looking for.”
Author : Yukio Lippit
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065122
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting written by Yukio Lippit and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen art poses a conundrum. On the one hand, Zen Buddhism emphasizes the concept of emptiness, which among other things asserts that form is empty, that all phenomena in the world are illusory. On the other hand, a prodigious amount of artwork has been created in association with Zen thought and practice. A wide range of media, genres, expressive modes, and strategies of representation have been embraced to convey the idea of emptiness. Form has been used to express the essence of formlessness, and in Japan, this gave rise to a remarkable, highly diverse array of artworks and a tradition of self-negating art. In this volume, Yukio Lippit explores the painting The Gourd and the Catfish (ca. 1413), widely considered one of the most iconic works of Japanese Zen art today. Its subject matter appears straightforward enough: a man standing on a bank holds a gourd in both hands, attempting to capture or pin down the catfish swimming in the stream below. This is an impossible task, a nonsensical act underscored by the awkwardness with which the figure struggles even to hold his gourd. But this impossibility is precisely the point.
Author : Koun Yamada
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861719719
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)
Download or read book The Gateless Gate written by Koun Yamada and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-06-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Gateless Gate, one of modern Zen Buddhism's uniquely influential masters offers classic commentaries on the Mumonkan, one of Zen's greatest collections of teaching stories. This translation was compiled with the Western reader in mind, and includes Koan Yamada's clear and penetrating comments on each case. Yamada played a seminal role in bringing Zen Buddhism to the West from Japan, going on to be the head of the Sanbo Kyodan Zen Community. The Gateless Gate would be invaluable if only for the translation and commentary alone, yet it's loaded with extra material and is a fantastic resource to keep close by: An in-depth Introduction to the History of Zen Practice Lineage charts Japanese-to-Chinese and Chinese-to-Japanese conversion charts for personal names, place names, and names of writings Plus front- and back-matter from ancient and modern figures: Mumon, Shuan, Kubota Ji'un, Taizan Maezumi, Hugo Enomiya-Lasalle, and Yamada Roshi's son, Masamichi Yamada. A wonderful inspiration for the koan practitioner, and for those with a general interest in Zen Buddhism.
Author : Perry Aayr
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469767821
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Islands in Time written by Perry Aayr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-12-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part IV of Some Die Mad, Islands In Time, is a love story between Malcolm Ward and Marlene Weston wherein the love of a good woman lures a man from psychosis to a dazzling conclusion seldom seen in literature.
Author : Cliff Edwards
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498203086
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Van Gogh’s Ghost Paintings written by Cliff Edwards and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most significant and revealing paintings by the world famous artist Vincent van Gogh was never seen by anyone but the artist himself. The painting was so important to the artist that he painted it twice. He was so conflicted about the painting that he destroyed it twice. Cliff Edwards argues these two unique paintings Vincent created and destroyed are at least as important to understanding the artist and his work as are the two thousand or more paintings and drawings that do exist. In Van Gogh's Ghost Paintings, Edwards invites his readers on a journey that begins in a Zen master's room in Japan and ends at a favorite site of the artist, a ruined monastery and its garden in the south of France. Recovering the intent of van Gogh and the nature of his "ghost paintings" becomes a "zen koan" waiting to be solved. The solution offers access to the deepest levels of the artist's life as painter and spiritual pilgrim. The journey leads to the artist's choice of the biblical theme of the Garden of Gethsemane. The answer to the mystery of the lost paintings illuminates the relationship of joy and suffering, discovery and creation, religion and the arts in van Gogh's life and work. In this fascinating book Edwards solves a long-ignored mystery that provides a critical key to the relation of van Gogh's religion and art.
Author : Steven Heine
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824847903
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Zen Koans written by Steven Heine and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” “Does a dog have Buddha-nature?” These cryptic expressions are among the best-known examples of koans, the confusing, often contradictory sayings that form the centerpiece of Zen Buddhist learning and training. Viewed as an ideal method for attaining and transmitting an unimpeded experience of enlightenment, they became the main object of study in Zen meditation, where their contemplation was meant to exhaust the capacity of the rational mind and the expressiveness of speech. Koan compilations, which include elegant poetic and eloquent prose commentaries on cryptic dialogues, are part of a great literary tradition in China, Japan, and Korea that appealed to intellectuals who sought spiritual fulfillment through interpreting elaborate rhetoric related to mysterious metaphysical exchanges. In this compact volume, Steven Heine, who has written extensively on Zen Buddhism and koans, introduces and analyzes the classic background of texts and rites and explores the contemporary significance of koans to illuminate the full implications of this ongoing tradition. He delves deeply into the inner structure of koan literature to uncover and interpret profound levels of metaphorical significance. At the same time, he takes the reader beyond the veil of vagueness and inscrutability to an understanding of how koan writings have been used in pre-modern East Asia and are coming to be evoked and implemented in modern American practice of Zen. By focusing on two main facets of the religious themes expressed in koan records—individual religious attainment and the role dialogues play in maintaining order in the monastic system—Zen Koans reveals the distinct yet interlocking levels of meaning reflected in different koan case records and helps make sense of the seemingly nonsensical. It is a book for anyone interested in untangling the web of words used in Zen exchanges and exploring their important place in the vast creative wellspring of East Asian religion and culture.
Author : Pete Jalesh
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3864796563
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)
Download or read book The little blue book on Zen of the Fundamental Realm written by Pete Jalesh and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Zen, meditation themes, Zen poetry, transcendental meditation, Koans, a book in a Zen series following the introductory book titled "Zen Handbook"
Author : John Tarrant
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 159030618X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Bring Me the Rhinoceros written by John Tarrant and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and playful exploration of the Zen koan tradition that reveals how everyday paradoxes are an integral part of our spiritual journey Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells more than a dozen traditional koans, which are partly paradoxical questions dangerous to your beliefs and partly treasure boxes of ancient wisdom. Koans show that you don’t have to impress people or change into an improved, more polished version of yourself. Instead you can find happiness by unbuilding, unmaking, throwing overboard, and generally subverting unhappiness. Author and Zen teacher John Tarrant brings the heart of the koan tradition out into the open, reminding us that the old wisdom remains as vital as ever, a deep resource available to anyone in any place or time.
Author : Kent Williams
Publisher : Allen Spiegel Fine Arts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Kent Williams written by Kent Williams and published by Allen Spiegel Fine Arts. This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text by Julia Morton, Edward Lucie-Smith.
Author : Katsuhiro Yoshizawa
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458758834
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book The Religious Art of Zen Master Hakuin written by Katsuhiro Yoshizawa and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Religious Art of Zen Master Hakuin is a stunning volume containing many of Hakuin's finest calligraphies and paintings. Katsuhiro Yoshizawa, the leading Japanese expert on Hakuin, masterfully reveals the profound religious meaning embedded in each artwork, providing a richly detailed documentary of the life and lessons of one of Zen's most respected teachers.
Author : Didier Ottinger
Publisher : Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN 13 : 2821601557
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Abstraction and Calligraphy written by Didier Ottinger and published by Art Book Magazine Distribution. This book was released on 2021-02-15T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by Louvre Abu Dhabi in collaboration with France Museums and Centre Pompidou, this exhibition catalogue examines how certain 20th century artists strove to establish a new visual language by merging text and image. Largely in response to a rapidly changing society, these artists looked towards eastern traditions and broke away from figurative conventions. Following the development of abstraction and how artists were inspired by early forms of writing, particularly calligraphy, the book is a rare opportunity to explore the work of modern masters such as Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Lee Ufan, Dia Azzawi, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, alongside contemporary pieces and monumental calligraffiti by Mona Hatoum, eL Seed and Ghada Amer.
Author : Arnie Kozak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1507204299
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Buddhism 101 written by Arnie Kozak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Learn everything you need to know about Buddhism in this clear and straightforward new guide. This book highlights and explains the central concepts of Buddhism to the modern reader, with information on mindfulness, karma, The Four Noble Truths, the Middle Way, and more"--
